Multiple Gmail-invites giveaways

[ignatz]

As a Palm user I like Plucker the best for its great skill with fonts and its very intuitive category system. Followed closely by iSilo for its speed.

(no invite for me)

[lzlasco]

hello. i use palmreader because i am more at ease with the interface. since not all docs i want to read are available in palmreader format, i also use isilo which is fast and has many docs written for it.

btw, i'm interested in getting an email invite.

[gadgetguru]

I also don't need one since I already won one earlier but it seem the supply has now overtaken demand... Gmail must be close to shedding it 'beta' and its 'by invitation only' status...

[Alexander Turcic]

lzlasco, jryanlee80, blueberrycheese: please PM me your email where to send the invite to.

Still 13 Gmail invites are waiting for you! Use this thread if you are interested

[Alexander Turcic]

Btw, one thing I like about eReader is its seamless integration of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th Ed). Since English is not my first language, it is often quite helpful to lookup the definition of a word when reading a book.

Another reader that offers the real Merriam-Webster is MobiPocket.

[johng]

I like iSilo the best. It reads all my doc files, plus web-pages. With the latest improvements, the program is getting better every day. It even has the desktop program for the PC and Mac.

I use mobipocket. It's quite easy to use.

Hope the invitation to gmail is still open. Thank you.

Heidi
heidi@ispbonanza.com.ph

[lzlasco]

Originally Posted by Alexander

lzlasco, jryanlee80, blueberrycheese: please PM me your email where to send the invite to.

just did. thanks again!

[Traecer Prime]

I'm also a heavy user of iSilo/iSiloX (great for offline HTML reading!) and eReader (love the highlighting and note features).

I love WordSmith (by Blue Nomad) for reading and editing Word documents. WordSmith is a joy to use for large documents, and I love its FineType font technology. I just wish Blue Nomad would update it to support images and tables.

I've recently tried RepliGo (http://www.cerience.com/), and I'd have to say it is excellent, as well. It is mainly billed as a PDF reader, but its converter is set up as a printer in Windows, so you can convert any document you can print. It supports bookmarks, notes, and highlighting, plus it has a variety of display features, including excellent zooming capability, landscape support, virtual input area support on Palms, and a text-only mode. Plus, there are viewers available for Palm OS, Symbian, PocketPC, and Windows. RepliGo's only problems are that it only supports its own document format, and the converter isn't cheap; though the viewers are free, the converter is $29.95. If I had a lot of PDFs to view on my Palm, however, I'd probably go ahead and swallow that hefty price, for RepliGo is vastly superior to Adobe's own Reader for Palm OS.

I hate the Adobe Reader for Palm OS. It's a bloated, ancient mess that needs to be thrown away. This thing was a terrible pain when it was introduced; it was huge for a Palm app, and the old m68k-based Palms of the day couldn't run it well. It has never gotten any better, really. It still has no bookmarking, highlighting, or note capabilities. It has no real font capabilities, and its handling of images is kludgy ("tap and hold to see the full-size image"). And this is all when I can get it to work; the program remains largely incompatible with palmOne's Tungsten T3. On the T3, the app most often skips over sections of text on a page, there are screen refresh issues, and frequent crashes. Plus, the desktop converter is a miserable experience. It requires Adobe Reader 6.0 on the desktop now (which is its own bit of bloated mess), always complains about the PDFs in question not being "tagged PDFs" (I have yet to see one of those), and inexplicably makes the resulting PDB file bigger than the original, though large portions of the formatting information was supposedly removed. IMNSHO, the Adobe Reader for Palm OS is virtually useless. I hope the Adobe's Readers for PocketPC and Symbian are better.

[hannah71188]

i use the plain vanilla palmreader. i guess i'm not the sophisticated type of a palm person. for my simple ebook reading needs, palmreader proves adequate so far. and by the way, i'm interested in getting a gmail invite! -- in case i qualify, my email address is hannah71188@hotmail.com thanks in advance!!

[elise10189]

i have tried a few readers like palmreader, isilo, and plucker. those are the ones i can recall. plucker has many features which i don't use, thus for me it is either isilo or palmreader. i'd like to get a gmail invite too! merci.

[doctorow]

I like iSilo + eReader best. One for reading offline html pages, the other for reading full e-books.

No invite for me; already found one here before.

[Francesco]

Originally Posted by doctorow

I like iSilo + eReader best. One for reading offline html pages, the other for reading full e-books.

I use iSilo for everything.
Doctorow, why do you prefer eReader for full e-books?
Is it because of the e-books you can buy? Or the interface itself has an advantage?

Although I might be switching soon, though. This Sunshine stuff seems very attractive.

[Alexander Turcic]

OK some of you already PMed me, some didn't. Trying hard not to lose track! johng, Heidi, Traecer Prime, hannah71188, elise10189 please PM me your e-mail address where I can send the invite to.

That means we should have eight Gmail invites left, each waiting for a new Gmail account owner

[Sunish]

I use mobipocket, it downloads all my news and with office companion , it can convert any MS Office document into a reader file and send it to my phone to read later.